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Have you ever wondered why the yummy pieces in your cereal cluster in one area or why your trail mix is never well mixed? Mixing different size particles is not as easy as you think! An interesting You probably have noticed that when you shake a mixture of nuts Vibrating a mixture of different sized particles will cause the larger particles to move upwards. Learn more about the rise of coarse ... Preparing his morning bowl of cereal, Andrew Vanden Heuvel encounters the frustration that arises from How do you move the steel ball across the sand from one end to the other? This brainteaser works on a rather counterintuitive ...

Challenge yourself to mix granular materials such as sprinkles and colored sand in this fun STEM activity. More details can be ... Watch the big (rough) body floating. More about how the simulation was made: Granular materials consist of small solid particles, though they can behave like a fluid. The particles are all made of the same ... Cleveland State University's Jearl Walker turns into the "nutty" professor in this episode of The Flying Circus of Physics. Find order in well-mixed chaos and discover how this phenomenon relates to both science and engineering. What starts out as a ...